Magnavox Odyssey- 1972

The Magnavox Odyssey was the very first home gaming console, created by Ralph Baer. It played simple games, such as ''pong'', ''table tennis'' and ''volleyball.''


Production started on 27th of January, being released in May 1972. Being heavily advertised it reportingly sold 100,000 units priced at $100 each, which was alot of money at the time.


The Odessey had no specifications, being made up of mainly transistors, resisters, and capacitors with other simple components. The g@mes themselves were contained in cards which contained pin outs, to change the game settings- making the game play. Plastic overlays would have to be placed over the tv sets in order to see the graphics and colour, the colour just being white squares over a black background. Six game cards come with the system, aswell as a 36-page user manual which gave information on the twelve games offered by the system.

Before it became the Odessey, it was called '' The Brown Box.''